Bengt Kleberg writes:
> > - 'make' systems are a very soft target. Lots of strange rules to
> > make them work around all sorts of local problems makes them
> > inherently ugly.
> i would take this as a reason to create a new system for building
> software. better suited to the task than 'make'.
I can't prove my conjecture, whereas you can prove yours (by coming up
with a make system so much better than gnumake that people switch to
it in spite of the inconvenience of having to learn something new).
I look forward to being proven wrong.
Others have had similar ideas:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Build_Management/Make_Tools/
Matt